This blog should be very interesting:
Creative Capitalism: A Conversation is a web experiment designed to produce a book - a collection of essays and commentary on capitalism, philanthropy and global development - to be edited by us and published by Simon and Schuster in the fall of 2008. The book takes as its starting point [...]
One approach to look at the soaring price of Oil is to blame it on speculators. Following the footsteps of Lenin both McCain and Obama using very harsh language toward the “speculators”. The reality, as usual, is slightly different:
To a large extent, this theory, if it is anything more than just populist capitalism-bashing, is a [...]
Oh, no! Obama might not be so bad as those who try to convince conservatives that McCain is “the lesser evil” :
Demonstrating that this is no mere spring fling, he has appointed 37-year-old Jason Furman to head his economic policy team. Furman is one of Wal-Mart’s most prominent defenders, anointing the company a “progressive success [...]
Light bulbs are externally serious matter! So serious that the federal government has to regulate almost every aspect of using them. We are cannot be trusted to decide which kind of light bulb we prefer to use, and how to replace them when needed, and therefore those who cannot run a restaurant efficiently should use [...]
Is the inflation, and the declining dollar, under control? The credit crisis is not a problem anymore? or the fact that the American taxpayers are going to bailout banks that waisted their investors money irresponsibly is such an achievement that the chairman of the Fed can expend to other areas?
Bolstering the performance of the U.S. [...]
A democratic response group posted this clip to youtube, and I have to say that it is pretty effective. I can’t see how such statements motivate fiscal conservative to bother voting for McCain. The absurd is that many time Obama sounds less offensive to free market advocates than McCain.
Democrats goals with such clips is not [...]
Paul Krugman present a very appealing case against those who call for deregulations:
Lately, however, there always seems to be at least one food-safety crisis in the headlines — tainted spinach, poisonous peanut butter and, currently, the attack of the killer tomatoes. The declining credibility of U.S. food regulation has even led to a foreign-policy crisis: [...]
Do you remember the first ads for cellphones? In the US they were selling the idea that cellphones liberate you, while in Israel they were more honest with the slogan “…make a lost hour to a working hour”. They use to show people to be pretending to be at work while actually being on the [...]
Before the congress send the lawyers to sue OPEC, it might be wise to check if US is not committing the same crime:
I am sure, either through scheming or more likely incompetence, that OPEC countries are under-supplying their potential capacity for oil production. But if we want to deem this a crime, who is the [...]
File this under stupid populism and waste of time:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Tuesday to let the Justice Department pursue energy antitrust and price fixing cases against members of the OPEC oil cartel, although critics said such attempts would likely be fruitless and could prompt a backlash from oil producers
The bill, approved 324-84, also [...]